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    "language": "en",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 44
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  "data": {
    "n": 44,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-44:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.1",
        "text": "We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-44:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.2",
        "text": "Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-44:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.3",
        "text": "For they gat not the land in possession by their own       sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy       countenance, Because thou wast favorable unto them."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-44:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.4",
        "text": "Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-44:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.5",
        "text": "Through thee will we push down our adversaries: Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against       us."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-44:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.6",
        "text": "For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-44:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.7",
        "text": "But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast put them to shame that hate us."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-44:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.8",
        "text": "In God have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever.     Selah"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-44:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.9",
        "text": "But now thou hast cast [us] off, and brought us to       dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-44:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.10",
        "text": "Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-44:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.11",
        "text": "Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And hast scattered us among the nations."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-44:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.12",
        "text": "Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-44:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.13",
        "text": "Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-44:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.14",
        "text": "Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-44:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.15",
        "text": "All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me,"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-44:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.16",
        "text": "For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-44:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.17",
        "text": "All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-44:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.18",
        "text": "Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way,"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PSA-44:19",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.19",
        "text": "That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PSA-44:20",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.20",
        "text": "If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PSA-44:21",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.21",
        "text": "Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PSA-44:22",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.22",
        "text": "Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PSA-44:23",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.23",
        "text": "Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast [us] not off for ever."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "PSA-44:24",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.24",
        "text": "Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "PSA-44:25",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.25",
        "text": "For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "PSA-44:26",
        "verseRef": "Ps.44.26",
        "text": "Rise up for our help, And redeem us for thy lovingkindness` sake.           Psalm 45  For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves."
      }
    ]
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